Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1891?

338 of the people we track were surely alive in 1891. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1891: B. R. Ambedkar, Antonio Gramsci, Mikhail Bulgakov, Erwin Rommel, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Sergei Prokofiev and Pär Lagerkvist.

Died in 1891: Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Melville, P. T. Barnum and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

  1. Adolf Hitler2
  2. Albert Einstein12
  3. Vladimir Lenin21
  4. Mahatma Gandhi22
  5. Leo Tolstoy63
  6. Joseph Stalin13
  7. Pablo Picasso10
  8. Winston Churchill17
  9. Charlie Chaplin2
  10. Friedrich Nietzsche47
  11. Thomas Edison44
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk10–12
  13. Mark Twain56
  14. Sigmund Freud35
  15. Marie Curie24
  16. Rabindranath Tagore30
  17. Franklin Delano Roosevelt9
  18. Franz Kafka8
  19. Anton Chekhov31
  20. Oscar Wilde37
  21. Charles de Gaulle1
  22. Otto von Bismarck76
  23. Nikola Tesla35
  24. Louis Pasteur69
  25. James Joyce9
  26. Henry Ford28
  27. Benito Mussolini8
  28. Friedrich Engels71
  29. Le Corbusier4
  30. Harry S. Truman7
  31. Agatha Christie1
  32. Sarah Bernhardt47
  33. Alfred Nobel58
  34. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky51
  35. Theodore Roosevelt33
  36. Jawaharlal Nehru2
  37. Marcel Proust20
  38. Dwight D. Eisenhower1
  39. Jules Verne63
  40. Woodrow Wilson35
  41. Rosa Luxemburg20
  42. Roald Amundsen19
  43. Rudyard Kipling26
  44. George Bernard Shaw35
  45. John Maynard Keynes8
  46. Niels Bohr6
  47. Bertrand Russell19
  48. Leon Trotsky12
  49. Max Planck33
  50. Arthur Conan Doyle32
  51. Maxim Gorky23
  52. Henri Matisse22
  53. Giuseppe Verdi78
  54. Dmitri Mendeleev57
  55. Frank Lloyd Wright24
  56. Virginia Woolf9
  57. Victoria72
  58. Ernest Rutherford20
  59. Ludwig Wittgenstein2
  60. Max Weber27
  61. Henrik Ibsen63
  62. H. G. Wells25
  63. Helen Keller11
  64. Émile Zola51
  65. Igor Stravinsky9
  66. David Hilbert29
  67. Thomas Mann16
  68. Erwin Schrödinger4
  69. Herbert Hoover17
  70. Hermann Hesse14
  71. Johannes Brahms58
  72. Anatole France47
  73. Alexander Graham Bell44
  74. Octave Mirbeau43
  75. Calvin Coolidge19
  76. T. S. Eliot3
  77. Kahlil Gibran8
  78. Lewis Carroll59
  79. Wilhelm Röntgen46
  80. Claude Monet51
  81. Guy de Maupassant41
  82. Selma Lagerlöf33
  83. Robert Louis Stevenson41
  84. William Butler Yeats26
  85. Ho Chi Minh1
  86. Sun Yat-sen25
  87. Carl Jung16
  88. Florence Nightingale71
  89. Antonín Dvořák50
  90. Gustav Mahler31
  91. Walt Whitman72
  92. Eleanor Roosevelt7
  93. B. R. Ambedkarborn
  94. Martin Heidegger2
  95. William Howard Taft34
  96. Giacomo Puccini33
  97. Konrad Adenauer15
  98. Grover Cleveland54
  99. Jack London15
  100. Arthur Rimbaud37 †
  101. André Gide22
  102. William McKinley48
  103. L. L. Zamenhof32
  104. Warren G. Harding26
  105. Boris Pasternak1
  106. Romain Rolland25
  107. Rutherford B. Hayes69
  108. Paul Cézanne52
  109. Henryk Sienkiewicz45
  110. Henri Bergson32
  111. Chiang Kai-shek4
  112. Swami Vivekananda28
  113. Nicholas II of Russia23
  114. John XXIII10
  115. Benjamin Harrison58
  116. Knut Hamsun32
  117. Alexander Fleming10
  118. Luigi Pirandello24
  119. Rainer Maria Rilke16
  120. David Ben-Gurion5

The 120 best known of 338 are listed.